The natural history of Oxford-shire : being an essay toward the natural history of England (1677)
Author: Plot, Robert, 1640-1696; Burghers, M; Miller, Simon, fl. 1653-1684
Subject: Natural history
Publisher: [Oxford] : Printed at the Theater in Oxford, and are to be had there ; And in London : At Mr. S. Millers ...
Language: English
Call number: 61130
Digitizing sponsor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Book contributor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Collection: getty; americana
Notes: No table of contents. Foxing. Narrow margins.
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"The price in sheets at the press, nine shillings. To subscribers, eight shillings."
Engraved t.p. vignette, head-piece and initial. Plates engraved by Michael Burghers. The initial [2] leaves of plates represent a folded, double-page map of Oxfordshire, tipped onto stub at centerfold
Signatures: [a]² b A-2Y 2Z-3A² 3B²(-3B2)
Includes index and errata at end
Wing (2nd ed.)
Binding: later polished calfskin. Spine gilt tooled including author & title on black label. Edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges sprinkled red. Green ribbon place marker
Engraved armorial bookplate of: The Rt. Honble. John Ld. Brownlowe, Baron Charleville & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland (5th baronet, created Viscount Tyrconnel 1718; see Franks 4109). Anonymous 19th-century bookplate of Cust, Earl Brownlow, with legend: Belton House; cf. Franks 7725. Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S
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